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Turn your regular phone into a smartphone with RTM!

carlson.james says:

Sometimes the best way to get more out of Remember the Milk is using it well with other existing technologies. I recently realized that because text messages are nothing more than emails, I can send tasks into RTM with my regular old phone. I have envied the iPhone and Android users and imagined their uber-productive lives with all of that technology packed into their phones, but now I can run with the big boys too! And I'm doing it for 1/5 of the cost!

On my phone, I simply put my RTM email address into the "To" field, and send it away! My phone supports MMS (Multimedia Messages) which have a subject field and a body field. Thus, the task name goes into the subject line. If your phone doesn't support MMS, or you don't pay for it, you can send a regular text too. The absence of the subject line will cause your task to be titled "no subject" in your RTM inbox--but you can quickly copy and paste the task from the note into the title. (This is quite fast if you use keyboard shortcuts!)